Image copyright RT Image caption Mr Salmond has hosted a weekly show on RT since November Alex Salmond has launched a stanch defence of his weekly demonstrate on Russian broadcaster RT as he warned regulator Ofcom against closing the channel down.
Opponents have accused the former Scottish first minister of being a “useful imbecile for the Kremlin”.
But Mr Salmond insisted that the state-funded channel was not propaganda, and he had never been told what to say.
And he said revoking its site licence in the UK would “make a mockery of freedom of speech”.
Ofcom said earlier this week that it could strip RT( Russia Today) of its broadcasting licence if the UK government concluded that Moscow was behind the chemical poisoning of a former snoop in Salisbury.
There have been claims that RT acts as a propaganda tool for the Kremlin, although politicians from all of the major UK political parties have appeared on it.
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